[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Grace Cangialosi]

I'm with you, Marion!  That's why I'm enjoying being a Virginia Master
Naturalist. (Though "Master" is a bit hyperbolic, applied to me...)

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I can never know too much about the natural world.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
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> On 12/26/2016 2:26 PM, Charles Wohlers wrote:
>
>> Technically, a bog is acidic, while fens are basic. Both are spring-fed -
>> like a filled-in kettle pond. Bogs, being acidic, are harder places for
>> plants to survive, so you get mosses, black spruce, pitcher plants, etc.
>> Lots of peat underneath. Fens tend to be a bit richer in plant & animal
>> life. Eastern North America being what it is, we mostly have bogs. There
>> are a few fens, however, one being right near us:
>> http://tinyurl.com/glogvqy.
>>
>> Pictures of a bog: https://www.flickr.com/photos/
>> cwohlers/albums/72157631255245918
>> And of a fen: https://www.flickr.com/photos/
>> cwohlers/albums/72157631553826163
>>
>> More than you'd ever want to know -
>>
>> Chad Wohlers
>> Woodbury, VT USA
>> chadwohl at satucket.com
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>> -----Original Message----- From: ME Michaud
>> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2016 9:47 AM
>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Happy Christmas
>>
>> I come from a part of the world where there's a distinction:
>>
>> marsh (salt water wetland)
>> swamp (fresh water wetland)
>> bog (damp mossy wetland surrounded by woods or scrubland).
>>
>> We have kettle ponds, areas where the retreating glaciers suddenly let go
>> a
>> cascade of meltwater and scraped-up stones that scoured a round hole
>> deep ito the ground. Fed by springwater and rainwater both, to come upon
>> one in the woods is a paintable (or photographable) pleasure.
>> -M
>>
>> On Monday, December 26, 2016, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Bog as in slang for the loo.  But I would speak of bog as a swamp as a
>>> bog.
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Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
love."*
*St. Teresa of Calcutta*